Life Participation Quotes

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

I've been involved in sport right through my life.

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

Don't live life as a spectator.

If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity.

I just eat life... I engage in life.

I guess when all is said and done, if there is one last commentary on me, I would want it to be said that I participated in my life. I was a full participant.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank

If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim.

I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it.

You can't sit on the sidelines of life.

Do you always think this much? It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.

When I see great film, I have this feeling of 'Oh, wow! Wasn't that great? Wasn't that good?' I want to do something. I want to scream and go out there and participate and embrace life.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

Sometimes I don't want to go out and socialize; I just want to watch my favorite shows and comedians. But then I have to remember that it is important to participate in life if you want to portray real life on screen.

You know what, it's not your life, it's life. Life is bigger than you, if you can imagine that. Life isn't something that you possess, it's something that you take part in and witness.

One of my brothers used to tell me all the time, "Listen, nobody is going to discover you in the living room." It's about being interactive in life and participating in your own life. Once you get a grasp on that, you understand. "OK, I can take a couple of knocks. They can hit me on the chin, and I can get up." That's what it's about. It's not about not getting knocked down but getting up. Making sure that you keep pursuing whatever that passion is. For me, that passion is entertainment.